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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

G. K. Chesterton

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Chance Compliment God Hell Human
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water

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